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Risk, Balanced Skills and Entrepreneurship
Hsieh, Chihmao - 2011
the impacts both of risk aversion and balanced skills on the likelihood individuals choose entrepreneurship. Data on Dutch …-averse people might be suited to entrepreneurship; and it may also help explain why prior research has generated mixed evidence … about the effects of risk aversion on selection into entrepreneurship …
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Migrant Entrepreneurs and Credit Constraints Under Labour Market Discrimination
Frijters, Paul - 2011
entrepreneurship and credit constraints under labour market discrimination. We divide self employed into prefer to be self-employed and …
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Entrepreneurship : Cause or Consequence of Financial Optimism?
Dawson, Christopher J. - 2012
psychological disposition and environmental factors, as theory requires if optimism is to be a causal influence on entrepreneurship …
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Endogenous Hours and the Wealth of Entrepreneurs
Wellschmied, Felix - 2019
US entrepreneurs typically work long hours in their firms and these hours form a large part of the firms' labor input. This paper studies the role of endogenous owner hours in shaping the wealth distribution among entrepreneurs. We introduce owners' endogenous labor supply into a model of...
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Bend it Like Beckham : Ethnic Identity and Integration
Bisin, Alberto - 2010
We propose a theoretical framework to study the determinants of ethnic and religious identity along two distinct motivational processes which have been proposed in the social sciences: cultural conformity and cultural distinction. Under cultural conformity, ethnic identity is reduced by...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10013136952
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Diasporas and Conflict
Mariani, Fabio - 2016
We build a model of conflict in which two groups contest a resource and must decide on the optimal allocation of labor between fighting and productive activities. In this setting, a diaspora emanating from one of the two groups can get actively involved in the conflict by transferring financial...
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